Primary care providers and a system problem a qualitative study of clinicians caring for patients with incidental pulmonary nodules

Chest

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1422-1429

  Golden, Sara E ^a   Wiener, Renda Soylemez ^c,d   Sullivan, Donald ^a,e   Ganzini, Linda ^a,e   Slatore, Christopher G ^a,b,f,g  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Division of Geriatric Medicine   (United States)

^f Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^g OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; DECISION MAKING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; JOB EXPERIENCE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PULMONOLOGIST; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SHARED DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE;

EID: 84949033247     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-2938     Document Type: Article

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